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Since they basically intentionally screw with your mind and there’s no rhyme or reason behind them no matter how hard you try? Koan: a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating. The most famous koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Here are another couple of exampes: A monk asked Zhaozhou, “What is the meaning of the ancestral teacher’s (i.e., Bodhidharma’s) coming from the west?” Zhaozhou said,...